Carlene Foster's Gallery : Jewel Tones, Half-Square Triangleshttp://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/g/carlene_foster/tags/Jewel+Tones/Half-Square+Triangles/default.aspxTags: Jewel Tones, Half-Square TrianglesenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)Tumalo Trail (another Bonnie Hunter pattern)http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/686838.aspxSun, 26 Oct 2014 15:24:27 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:686838Carlene Foster1<p>Tumalo Trail pattern is contained in Scraps and Shirttails II, by Bonnie K. Hunter.&nbsp; I made mine one row longer and made the piano keys 6 inches long, instead of 5 inches.&nbsp; The dimensions on mine wer 95 x 75 when finished.&nbsp; A great way to use those 1.5 inch strips and squares leftover from previous projects.&nbsp; This one took an additional 54 matching 4x4 squares to make the half square triangles in the block design.&nbsp;&nbsp; I had lots of singular little pieces, but you can strip piece the 9 patch components if you don&#39;t have the tiny pieces.</p>Scrapalicious #2http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/581812.aspxWed, 16 Oct 2013 16:16:52 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:581812Carlene Foster9<p>I was given a kitchen size garbage bag full of scraps over the weekend.&nbsp; So, once again, I am abundant in scraps to create with.&nbsp; (Sad part of this is, this is the first time someone has added to my own scrap pile. :))&nbsp; This is another Bonnie Hunter pattern called &quot;Cathedral Stars&quot;.&nbsp; I&#39;m definitely a fan of hers, since I still posess an abundance of 2x2 squares.&nbsp; I had one yard of the red and one yard of the black in my stash for the pieced center.&nbsp; The black setting triangles were out of the donated scraps (I had to substitute 2 of the setting triangles from my black stash), the blue outer border was a yard from my stash, which I had to add a piece of similar color value fabric from the stars to complete the border.&nbsp; The red inner border is from the same yard that I used in the piece center.&nbsp; &nbsp;No one will ever have one quite like this one.&nbsp; That might be a good thing.&nbsp; </p>Scrapalicioushttp://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/579688.aspxWed, 09 Oct 2013 13:04:52 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:579688Carlene Foster8<p>One would think that I would eventually run out of scraps.&nbsp; I have found they are like a batch of pennies in the bottom of a woman&#39;s purse....put them in a dark place, out of sight, out of mind, and they multiply!!!!!!!!&nbsp; So, I have been scouring Bonnie Hunter&#39;s free patterns to see what kind of scrap quilt catches my fancy today.&nbsp; This is the &quot;16 Patch and Pinwheels&quot; pattern.&nbsp; Mine is 15x15, which makes it 90 x 90 without any additional borders.&nbsp; Unfortunately (or fortunately, however you look at it) I have barely put a dent in my 2 x 2 bag of scraps.&nbsp; I&#39;m looking for another to work on now. :)&nbsp; To border or not to border this quilt remains a decision for another day. :)</p>Quilt as you go scrappyhttp://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/561766.aspxSun, 18 Aug 2013 14:04:56 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:561766Carlene Foster3<p>I cannot throw fabric scraps away.&nbsp; Large or small, I have a compulsive need to use them in something.......anything.&nbsp; So, from past projects, I had this bunch of baggies full of half square triangle pieces that needed a home.&nbsp; This lead to the centers of these blocks.&nbsp; The outside of each block is composed of slightly orphaned 2.5&quot; strips....you know...the ones that are one of a kind and not quite 42&quot;?&nbsp; The blocks themselves are 10.5 x 10.5.&nbsp; I have 4 left over for cornerstones, and had enough for a 6 x 6 block grid.&nbsp; I also found some beige, marbled fabric for the border....just enough to do the job, not enough to leave me more scraps to deal with.&nbsp; The backing....some really busy Celtic knot fabric that was a sale too good to pass up about 3 years ago, and because the price was right, I got lots of it....like 6 yards.&nbsp; I am definitely putting a dent in that piece.&nbsp; So, from a little bit of nothing, this is what happened.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#39;m happy, and someone will be warm under it. :)</p>Catch the Rainbow!http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/467110.aspxFri, 30 Nov 2012 23:52:32 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:467110Carlene Foster10<p>What do you do when you find yourself with a rainbow of scraps?&nbsp; Make a rainbow quilt, of course!&nbsp; This was a controlled paper bag pieced quilt.&nbsp; Each block had no repeats of fabrics, but the order that the block went into the design depended on which order it got pulled from the paper bag.&nbsp; So, each block got sorted by color, then thrown into the bag and pulled out one piece at a time.</p>Iowa Star Scrap Quilthttp://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/457660.aspxMon, 12 Nov 2012 15:25:22 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:457660Carlene Foster6<p>This was a pattern created by a native of Traer, Iowa.&nbsp; This is just up the road from my sister&#39;s house, and I didn&#39;t even know there was a quilt shop so close to her...guess where I am stopping my next trip?&nbsp; This is the kind of quilt you do when the partiallly used fq&#39;s and the scraps outnumber the full pieces.&nbsp; It used a lot of scraps, and a lot of those fq&#39;s that I just didn&#39;t know how I was going to use them anywhere...ever.&nbsp; Loved the effect....and there will never be another one exactly like this one...ever.&nbsp; Next one I make, I will keep the neutrals very light and not use so much yellow on a focal block.</p>Orca Bay Mystery Quilt 2011http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/310186.aspxSun, 08 Jan 2012 14:57:55 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:310186Carlene Foster12<p>Bonnie K. Hunter&#39;s Orca Bay Mystery Quilt ran from Thanksgiving 2011 through January 1, 2012.&nbsp; This is my finished quilt top.&nbsp; Once again, Bonnie walked a group of quilters of various skills through a complex pattern by breaking it into managable steps.&nbsp; For me, the twist came at the end with those black/white border pieces...I never would have guessed that was what those were for.&nbsp; I was trying to put them around the Ohio Star units and thinking that the red string blocks would be around the border somehow.&nbsp; The biggest challenge I had putting the top itself together was those blue string blocks....if they weren&#39;t placed properly, the flow of the pattern just died in place.&nbsp; There are some of those that got removed and replaced at least 3 times, some 4.&nbsp; I blame it on quilt dyslexia. :)</p>